Rose Oak Hobby Farm & Rabbitry

07/06/2024

Two cross breed pigs up for discussion Juliana×potbelly. 9 weeks. Thomasville, GA

06/28/2024

PM. Thomasville, Ga area.

06/27/2024

Get ready for a chocolate overload (in the best possible way) with Rose Oak Hobby Farm's freshest faces, the irresistible Chocolate Orpingtons! As dual-purpose darlings, they're equally skilled at providing eggs and putting smiles on faces. Prepare for your farm flock to become the envy of all your pals. We have a dozen 11 day old chicks currently available, straight run. PM for details.

06/27/2024

She found a place that she liked to lay her egg.

06/25/2024

Let me tell you about our Georgia Summers. This is an article I had written several years ago for organization club magazine I was a part of that popped up, and i revised it to repost here. Enjoy.
Summer has officially arrived. The Summer Solstice occurred June 20, 2024. Most of the United States has already begun experiencing summer time temperatures due to heat waves creating heat advisories across most of the country in recent weeks. As our country is composed of different regions, these regions experience weather and temperature differences due to locations, the receiving of wind and ocean currents, and the elevation above sea level during the seasonal changes. The Southeast area of the United States has a special effect of living conditions due to the humidity that does not get experienced in the dry heat temperatures of the desert areas of the Southwest regions.
Georgia is considered a major state of the South. Due to the economic growth and popularity the state has seen in the past several decades, it has become a new home to many relocating from other states. This relocation has made Georgia one of the five fastest growing states in the nation during the past five years, and created a cultural living shock unique to Georgia summers.
Georgia’s topography contains a lot of the regions found in this country all in one state. There is the coast made up of the Golden Isles that ranges from the South Carolina and Florida state lines. The tips of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the northeastern corner and the tip of the Appalachian Mountains are located in the northeastern corner. Mid state is the Piedmont Plateau region that lies between the mountains and the Coastal Plains.
Welcome to Georgia! (Except in the summer). Those signs can be seen as you travel the highways and cross the neighboring state lines entering into the state, along with a peach symbol as Georgia is nicknamed “The Peach State”. Depending upon the locations visited, you might enjoy some famous Southern hospitality, taste fabulous food, enjoy some popular tourism spots, and encounter the “gnat line”. The “gnat line” stretches across the state from Columbus towards Macon and upwards to Augusta. The” gnat line” is part of our Georgia summers due to the humidity that occurs within our region.
There is much to enjoy about Georgia, and I highly recommend visiting. For those that relocate and experience summers in Georgia, they must adapt or relocate again after experiencing Georgia summers. Either you tolerate it or leave it, and very few love it. Those that generally love it are in those mountainous regions that allow an escape from the humidity and the gnats. This is why the areas above Atlanta and Athens have become the fastest growing areas of the state in recent years. The “gnat line” separates those areas that are hated or loved during the Georgia summers depending upon which side you are on.
The humidity smacks you in the face as you go outside on a summer morning just after daybreak and lasts until the moon rises in the darkness of the night. Experiencing a Southern Georgia summer is different than in most any other state. You feel like a turkey on Thanksgiving day roasting in the oven, being basted frequently in your own sweat to obtain that golden brown color. The sweat begins to run down various parts of your body, from places you didn’t realize you even had pores begin to seep liquid from your body. Your clothing becomes soaked, if you attempt to wring your clothes to dry them, sweat will drip from the twisted mass of clothing held in your hands.
You walk from a building to enter into your vehicle, as only the big metro cities have public transportation in the form of public buses. You have to drive, walk or find something to ride as a mode of transportation in rural Georgia. As you walk, you feel the soles of your shoes sticking to the asphalt surface of a parking lot, making little sucking sounds as little pieces of rubber are left behind in the trail of footprints to your vehicle.
Gnats try to attack your eyes, and fly into your nose, ears and mouth causing you to act out motions to your own version of Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes, as you attempt to swat them away. There is nothing to rid the gnats, there are a few old home-remedies passed down through generations to try to relieve the aggression of little boogers, which rarely ever work.
As you open the door of your vehicle, you are blasted in the face from that heated oven temperatures in which to cook you like a Thanksgiving turkey. You slide into the seat, if you are wearing clothing that exposes bare leg flesh, you discover your skin blisters, turning red upon contact. Those fortunate owners who have air-conditioning turn it on full blast to the coldest setting. Those unfortunate ones who don"t, try to get a ride with those who do. For those that can't obtain a ride, and have to ride without, they say again for the 100,000 time that they wish they had air conditioning, while rolling down the windows immediately.
As you shut the door on the vehicle, you realize 4,000 gnats also followed you inside the vehicle, and are now crawling all over every surface of the oven on wheels. On the windshield blocking your view is 2,000 gnats, with another 1,000 trying to attempt to crawl inside every or***ce of your body, while the other 1,000 is trying to escape the heat inside the vehicle. You roll down the windows in an attempt to help them escape their annoyance, even though you are also releasing precious cold air-conditioned air into the sauna in which you just walked through to reach your vehicle.
The backs of your legs are screaming in pain from the stinging of the blistering heat from your leather or vinyl covered seats. Walking will be difficult until the burning sensation goes away. While many people have steering wheel covers as an accessory to the interior of their vehicle, here in south Georgia, they are a necessity to prevent the white-hot burn of grabbing a steering wheel with your hands during the summer.
While there is much to love about Georgia, just be aware that summer contains its own perils if you should visit below the “gnat line”. Make sure to be prepared to battle gnats, sweat off some pounds in Mother Nature's sauna, and that you can obtain a tan to rival any spray tan (make sure you wear sunscreen). Should you decide to relocate here, you have been warned about our hot Georgia summers. Welcome to Georgia!!
-M. Dill-Salter

06/01/2024

UPDATE: NO LONGER AVAILABLE

Buck rabbit. Mixed breed. Thomasville area. PM only.

05/29/2024

Update: No longer available.

Young Barred Rock flock. 5 hens and 1 rooster. Raised from chicks hatched last year, hens beginning to lay. Thomasville area. PM only.

05/28/2024

05/21/2024

No longer available

5 foot box blade

05/05/2024

Mini rex doe. Proven breeder. Otter color.
No pedigree.3 years old. 👀 for new 🏡. Thomasville area location. PM for info.

05/05/2024

Volunteer sunflower that grew from animals dropping their feed. It is about 5 ft high.

05/04/2024

No longer available.

Mini rex proven doe. Harlequin VC. 3 years. No pedigree. Thomasville GA area. PM for info

05/04/2024

No longer available

Various silkies straight run. 8-10 weeks old.
Thomasville area. PM only

04/30/2024

Still available

Rabbit cages are 3×3 split 3×18
and 4×3 split 2×3
PM for information

04/20/2024

No longer available

Easter Egger starter flock. 1 roo and 3 hens. 4-5 months old almost laying age. Thomasville. PM for info

04/20/2024

No longer available

Lilac point California buck. Thomasville. PM for info

04/19/2024

2 proven mini rex does. Thomasville area. PM for info

04/18/2024

Gold laced Polish rooster.

01/11/2024

▶️ Watch this reel
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/vBo977BwEP7sS1tS/?mibextid=vt96w4

11/21/2023

Found new home.
Blue eyed castor mini rex buck. 5 months old. Looking for new 🏠

09/17/2023

Found new homes.

These gorgeous boys are still available. All from the same litter born June 1. Parents are purebred pedigreed mini rex. Almost 4 months old, and will have reached full maturity by Dec. Pm for details

08/27/2023

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1372613559954327?mibextid=9drbnH

05/26/2023

UPDATED

UFD: 24 BYM chicks, straight run. 2 weeks old. Thomasville GA area.

Hatched on 5/15-16 from these BYM crosses.
Roosters are White Leghorn, Lavender Orpington, Rhode Island Red with Barred Rock Hens, GLW, and WL hens.

Chicks will be a BYM mystery mix of any of those crosses. PM FOR INFO

05/21/2023

Such awesome cuteness and a very satisfied customer. Thank you Hadley Ferry Homestead!!

05/20/2023

5 day old chicks. Straight run. BYM of various crosses. PM for details.

05/20/2023

Rose Oak Hobby Farm & Rabbitry had a successful day at the Camilla Farm Swap. Thank you Casey Cone for organizing this event.

05/18/2023

UPDATE: ALL NO LONGER AVAILABLE

UFD: 2 NZ black bucks, 10 weeks old. Purebred Giant Chinchilla buck 12 weeks old. These guys are ready to hop. Also not pictured is a colony of mature California White rabbits, 1 buck and 4 does who have been exposed to buck.

05/07/2023

Update: No longer available. It is now a new home for some well loved rabbits.

8 foot long 4 hole rabbit cage. 16 gauge wire. Making use of extra wire. PM for info.

05/01/2023

UPDATE: NO LONGER AVAILABLE

UFD. Several cottontails are needed to relocate ASAP. Available are 2 NZ bucks, 1 Giant Chinchilla buck 10 weeks, and a California/rex cross. All of them are wishing for and desire new companions and adventures. Vacations to cold destinations aren't out of the question once the youngster's passports have been processed.
PM if any of these might interest you. Will also possibly be attending the next local swap location if New accommodations haven't been found prior to next Saturday.

04/15/2023

UPDATED: All pictured no longer available

Giant chinchilla 2 bucks available. Purebred 8 weeks old, non-pedigreed. GC are a great addition for those that breed meat production rabbits. They do not get as big as the Flemish Giants for those that tend to avoid those because of their size.

Black buck is a California x Mini Rex cross. He is currently 12 weeks old. Will try to update with a current picture as he has grown since that was taken.